Poole's Outline of 2 Samuel 21: God's Avenging of a Broken Covenant
- Dr. Dilday
- Aug 27
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A three years’ famine, declared by God to be for the Gibeonites’ sake, ceaseth by their hanging seven of Saul’s sons, 1-9. Rizpah preserveth the dead bodies, 10, 11. David burieth the bones of Saul and Jonathan, as also of them that were hung up, in his father’s sepulchre, 12-14. Four battles against the Philistines, wherein four valiants of David slay four giants, 15-22.
Matthew Henry: 'The date of the events of this chapter is uncertain. I incline to think that they happened as they are here placed, after Absalom's and Sheba's rebellion, and towards the latter end of David's reign. That the battles with the Philistines, mentioned here, were long after the Philistines were subdued, appears by comparing 1 Chron 18:1 with 20:4. The numbering of the people was just before the fixing of the place of the temple (as appears 1 Chron 22:1), and that was towards the close of David's life; and, it should seem, the people were numbered just after the three years' famine for the Gibeonites, for that which is threatened as "three" years' famine (1 Chron 21:12) i…
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